Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of
Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest
concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture
and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The
volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little
of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on
extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many
conversations with participants in and historians of the movement,
Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse
how this photographic work has developed cohesively and rigorously,
from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing
researches of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group by
way of mysterious veiled responses to the repressive contexts with
which they were faced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The main
chapters, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter
texts examining specific works. The reader will find in this volume
images that present challenges to our understanding of how
photographic work has been used within surrealism, pinpointing
individual pictures whose dynamic charge may induce instants of
compelling interrogation and disruption.
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